the opening of my administration, (what the progress of it will, I hope, demonftrate) that I have no end or ambition, but to be able to represent, in the warmest manner, to his majesty, the zeal and una nimity of his subjects in this kingdom, and to carry with me, on my return into the royal prefence, the good opinion, the affection, the hearts of the people of Ireland. BY The Subftance of the French Memorial of the Negotiations for Peace. the Memorial of the Negociations, &c. published by France, it appears, That on the 29th of July, Mr. Stanley delivered to the French miniftry the ultimatum, or final propofals, of England; the fubftance of which is as follows: 1. France shall cede Canada, CapeBreton, and the islands in the Gulph of St. Laurence, with the right of fishing on the coafts. 2. Whatever does not belong to Canada, shall not be considered as appertain ing to Louifiana. 3. Senegal and Goree shall be yielded to England. 4. Dunkirk fhall be put in the ftate it ought to be in by the treaty of Utrecht; and on this condition, France shall be reftored to the priviledge allowed her by that treaty, of fishing on part of the banks of Newfoundland. fhall be tolerated there, and that the inhabitants fhall have liberty to dispose of their effects, and retire. France further infifts on the right of fishing in the Gulph of St. Laurence, and demands fome island near it on which to dry her fish. 2. France doth not pretend that what is not Canada is Louisiana; but demands that the intermediate nations between Canada and Louisiana, and between Virginia and Louisiana, shall be considered as independent, and a barrier between the French and English. 3. France demands Goree. However, M. de Buffy fhall talk about this point. 4. M. de Buffy fhall alfo talk about Dunkirk, when a port is agreed on in the Gulph of St. Laurence for the protection of the French fishery. 5. France agrees to the partition of the 5. The Neutral Islands fhall be equal- Neutral Islands. ly divided. 6. Minorca fhall be restored. 7. France hall evacuate and restore all her conquests in Germany. 8. England fhall reftore Belleifle and Guadalupe. 6. England may keep Belleifle, and France will keep Minorca. 7. In confideration of the reftitution of Guadalupe, France will evacuate her conquests in Germany, except thofe made on the king of Pruffia, which are held for the 9. Difputes in the Eaft-Indies fhall be Empress queen. fettled by the two companies. 10. The captures made by England before war was declared thall not be reftored. 11. France fhall not retain Oftend and Nieuport. 12. The ceffation of arms fhall take place when the preliminaries are ratified, or the definitive treaty tigned. 13. Both kings shall be at liberty to affift their German allies. 14. Prisoners shall be reciprocally fet at liberty. The fubftance of France's Anfwer, dated 1. France will yield all Canada, but ins ifts that the Roman Catholic religion 8. France accepts of Guadalupe as a compenfation for her ceffions in NorthAmerica and Africa, and the demolition of the works at Dunkirk. 9. France agrees that the East-India companies fhall fettle their differences. 10. France infifts on the reftitution of the captures made before the war. 11. France never intended to keep Oftend and Nieuport. 12. The term of ceafing hoftilities will occation no difference. 13. If England will withdraw her af finance from her German allies, France will do the fame with regard to hers. 14. The release of the prifoners is well. Ад An answer to the above ultimatum was delivered on the Ift of September, to the following purport: 1. England infifts on the full and entire ceffion of Canada and its appurtenances; the island of Cape-Breton, and the islands in the Gulph of St. Laurence; Canada comprehending, agreeable to the line of limits drawn by M. Vaudreuil himself, when he gave up the province by capitulation, on one fide the lakes Huron, Michigau, and Superior; and the faid line, drawn from Lake Rouge, comprehending by a winding courfe, the river Ouabache to its junction with the Ohio, and from thence ftretching along this last river inclufively to its confluence with the Miffiffippi. The Roman Catholic religion hall be tolerated in Canada; the inhabitants may fell their effects, provided the purchafers be British subjects; and shall be allowed a year to remove elsewhere. 2. The limits of Louisiana, delivered in a note by M. de Buffy, cannot be allowed, because they comprehend vast tracts of land which Vaudreuil comprehended within Canada; and on the fide of the Carolina's they comprehend extenfive regions, and numerous nations, under England's protection. 3. England fhall keep Senegal and Goree; but if France will fuggest any reasonable scheme for fupplying herself with negroes, it fhall be considered. 4. Dunkirk fhall be put in the ftate it ought to be in by the treaty of Aix-laChapelle. France shall be restored to the privilege allowed her in the treaty of Utrecht of fishing on the banks of Newfoundland, and drying fish there. France, moreover, fhall be allowed to catch fish in the gulph of St. Laurence, and the ifland of St. Peter's fhall be ceded to her for drying them, provided the abstain from fishing on the coaft, and erect no fortification, or keep any military establishment on the said island; and provided that an English commiffary be allowed to refide on it, and English men of war to vifit it from time to time, to fee that the above ftipulations be ob. ferved. 5. No alternative for the Neutral (fo called) islands will be accepted; but the partition of them will still be agreed to 6. Belleifle, Guadalupe, and Marigalante, fhall be restored. 7. Minorça fhall be restored, 8. With regard to the evacuation of the French conquefts in Germany, England adheres to the 7th article of her Ultimatum, and infifts on the reftitution of Wefel, and the King of Pruffia's territories. 9. England will still fupport the king of Pruffia with vigour and good faith. 10. The reftitution of the fhips taken before the war is unjust by the law of nations. 11. England trufts to France's declaration relative to Oftend and Nieuport. 12, 13, 14. England perfifts in what she said in her Ultimatum. To thefe articles France replied one by one. 1. France agrees to the ceffion of Canada, but asks two years or eighteen months for the inhabitants of Canada to fell their effects and remove. And defires to know what England understands by the Appurtenances of Canada, 2. France yields up Canada with the limits affigned it by Vaudreuil; but infifts that the Indians on one fide of the line fhall be independent under the protection of France; and thofe on the other fide independent under the protection of England. The English traders shall not crofs the line; but the Indians shall be at liberty to trade with both nations. 3. France will cede Senegal and Goree, provided England will guaranty to France her settlements at Anamabou and Akra. 4. For the fake of peace, France will demolish the new works at Dunkirk, fill up the bafon, which is capable of receiving fhips of the line, and deftroy the rope-walks. The 13th article of the treaty of Utrecht relative to the fishery fhall be confirmed. The inland of Maquelon or Michelen fhall be added to St. Peter's; a guard of fifty men fhall be kept on those inlands to fupport the civil magiftrate; no foreign fhips, even English, shall be allowed to touch there; but an English commiffary may refide there. 5. The Neutral iflands may be equally divided, provided St. Lucia be part of the fhare of France. 6, 7. France agrees to. 8. France cannot evacuate countries belonging to the emprefs-queen. 9. This article of affifting the German allies requires explanation. so. The demand of the fhips taken before fore war was declared, is fo juft, that time that the negotiation of the two France cannot depart from it. 11. When the preliminaries are figned, the king of France will give it under his hand, that he never intended to keep Oftend and Nieuport. 13. The two East India Companies fhall finish their negotiation at the fame crowns is concluded. Tranflation of the Memorial relative to Spain, prefented by M. de Buffy to the Court of London. IT being effential, as well as agreeable to the defires of France and England, that the treaty of projected peace ferve for the basis of a folid reconciliation between the two crowns, which may not be disturbed by the interefts of a third power, and the engagement which one or the other court may have entered into anteriourly to their reconciliation; the king of Spain fhall be invited to guaranty the treaty of future peace, between his most Christian majesty and the king of Great Britain. This guaranty will obviate the inconveniencies both prefent and future, respecting the folidity of the peace. The king will not conceal from his Britannic majesty, that the differences of Spain with England, alarm and make him dread, if they should not be adjusted, a new war in Europe and America. The king of Spain has confided to his majefty, the three points of difcuffion which fubfift between his crown and that of Great Britain. Thefe are, 1. The reftitution of fome prizes made, during the prefent war, under the Spanish flag. tled agreeable to the juftice of the two fovereigns, and the king defires earnestly, that they may be able to find out temperaments, which may content on these two points the Spanish and English nations: but he cannot diffemble from England the danger, which he forefees, and which he will be forced to partake of, if these objects, which may affect fenfibly his catholic majesty, should end in a war. It is for this reason, that his majesty regards as one of the first confiderations for the advantage and folidity of the peace, that at the fame time that this defireable end fhall be settled between France and England, his Britannic majesty would terminate his differences with Spain, and agree that the Catholic king fhall be invited to guaranty the treaty which is to reconcile (would to God it may be for ever) his most Christian majesty and the king of England. For the reft his majesty does not communicate his fears on this head to the court of London, but with the most upright and open intentions of preventing every thing which may happen to interrupt the union of the French and English. 2. Liberty to the Spanish nation of fish- nations; and the king entreats his Bri ing on the bank of Newfoundland. 3. The deftruction of the English establishments formed on the Spanish territory in the bay of Honduras. Thefe three articles may be eafily fet tannic majesty, whom he supposes animated with the fame defire, to tell him, without difguife, his opinion on an object so essential. king of Great Britain, neither in his capacity of king or elector, shall afford any fuccour, either in troops, or of any kind whatever, to the king of Prussia; and that his Britannic majefty will undertake that the Hanoverian, Heffian, Brunfwickian, and the other auxiliaries in alliance with Hanover, fhall not join the forces of the king of Pruffia, in like manner as France fhall engage on her part, not to yield fuccour of any kind to the empress queen, nor her allies. Both the conditions appear fo natural and equitable in themselves, that his ma jefty could not do otherwife than acquiefce in them; and he hopes that the king of Great Britain will be ready to adopt them. Mr. Pitt's Letter, in Anfwer to the foregoing, 24th July 1761. Having explained myself, in our con ference yesterday, with respect to certain engagements of France with Spain, relative to the difputes of the latter crown with Great-Britain, of which your court never informed us, but at the very inftant of making, as he has done, her first propofitions for the feparate peace of the two crowns, and as you have defired, for the fake of greater punctuality, to take a note of what paffed between us upon fo weighty a fubject, I here repeat, Sir, by his majesty's order, the fame declaration, word for word, which I made to you yesterday, and again anticipate you with respect to the most fincere fenti'ments of friendship, and real regard on the part of his majefty towards the Catholic king, in every particular consistent with reafon and juftice. It is my duty to declare farther to you in plain terms, in the name of his majefty, That he will not fuffer the disputes with Spain to be blended, in any manner whatever, in the nego ciation of peace between the two crowns; to which I must add, That it will be confidered as an affront to his majesty's dignity, and as a thing incompatible with the fincerity of the negotiation, to make farther mention of such a circumftance. Moreover, it is expected that France will not, at any time, prefume a right of intermeddling in fuch difputes between Great-Britain and Spain. These confiderations, so just and indifpenfible, have determined his majesty to order me to return you the memorial which occafions this, as wholly inadmiffible. I likewife return you, Sir, as totally inadmiffible, the memorial relative to the king of Pruffia, as implying an attempt upon the honour of Great-Britain, and the fidelity with which his majesty will always fulfil his engagements with his allies. I have the honour to be, &c. PITT. : jea, who, tho' every other motive should be overlooked, ought to intereft himself in my cafe as a common concern, and concur with all your power towards the punishment of those who dare commit fuch outrages against the liberty of your country." The doctor feemed to be a little difconcerted; but after some recollection, refumed his air of fufficiency and importance, and affured our adventurer he would do him all the fervice in his power; but, in the mean time, advised him to take the potion he had prescribed. The knight's eyes lightning with indignation, “I am now convinced, (cried he) that you are accomplice in the villainy which has been practifed upon me; that you are a fordid wretch, without principle or feeling, a difgrace to the faculty, and a reproach to human nature —yes, firrah, you are the most perfidious of all affaffins - you are the hireling every tenderness of nature, and every virtue of humanity. That these qualities are centered in you, doctor, I would willingly believe: but it will be fufficient for my purpose, that you are poffeffed of common integrity. To whofe concern I am indebted for your vifits, you best know but if you understand the art of medicine, you must be fenfible by this time, that with refpect to me your prescriptions are altogether unneceffary-come, Sir, you cannot -you don't believe that my intellects are difordered. Yet, granting me to be really under the influence of that deplorable malady, no perton has a right to treat me as a lunatic, or to fie out a commiflion, but my nearest kindred.-That you may not plead ignorance of my name and family, you fhall understand that I am Sir Launcelot Greaves, of the county of York, baronet; and that my nearest relation is SirReginald Meadows, of Chefhire, the eldest son of my mother's fifter-minifter of the worst of all villains, that gentleman, I am fure, had no concern in feducing me by falfe pretences under the clouds of night into the fields, where I was furprifed, overpowered, and kidnapped by armed ruffians. Had he really believed me infane, he would have proceeded according to the dictates of honour, humanity, and the laws of his country. Situated as I am, I have a right, by making application to the lord chancellor, to be tried by a jury of honest men.-But of that right, I cannot avail myfelf, while 1 remain at the mercy of a brutal mifcreant, in whofe houfe I am inclosed, unless you contribute your affiftance. Your affiftance, there fore, I demand, as you are a gentleman, a chriftian, and a fellow-fi.b. who from motives even bafer than malice, envy, and revenge, rob the innocent of all the comforts of life, brand them with the imputation of madness, the moft cruel fpecies of flander, and wantonly protract their mifery, by leaving them in the mott fhocking confinement, a prey to refections infinitely more bitter than death-but I will be calm—do me juftice at your peril. I demand the protection of the legislature-if I am refufed,-remember, a day of reckoning will come-you and the reft of the mifcreants who have combined against me, muft, in order to cloak your treachery, have recourfe to murder; an expedient which I believe you very capable of embracing, or a man of my rank and cha raЯter |